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Apostle Stachys of the Seventy

Greeted by Paul as 'my beloved' (Rom 16:9); by tradition the first bishop of Byzantium, ordained by the Apostle Andrew.

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Greeted by Paul as 'my beloved' (Rom 16:9); by tradition the first bishop of Byzantium, ordained by the Apostle Andrew.

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The Seventy Apostles
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His companions & kin
Hieromartyr
Hieromartyr Pancratius Bishop of Taormina
Hieromartyr
Hieromartyr Apollinaris Bishop of Ravenna
Apostle
Apostle Timothy of the Seventy
Hierarch
Saint Bucolus Bishop of Smyrna
Hierarch
Photius the Great Patriarch of Constantinople
Hieromartyr
Hieromartyrs Marcellus of Sicily Philagrius of Cyprus, and Pancratius of Taormina
Notes

One of the Seventy Apostles; commemorated in the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles (Jan 4).

Sources: Synaxarion; the traditional catalogue of the Seventy Apostles; New Testament